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...with a similar determination that Lu fights for an answer to why the Beichuan No. 1 Middle School caved in, crushing his daughter. Lu had just had lunch with her in town an hour before the quake struck. He felt the earth move as he waited for a bus back to their mountain village. Rocks tumbled down from a nearby peak, but as soon as the tremors eased he ran to the school. "The five-story building was completely flattened and young, broken bodies were everywhere," he says. "There were parents here and there, crying and digging for their children...
...town collapsed. The single father, 40, lost his only child when the Beichuan No. 1 Middle School crumbled. His wife had died 16 years earlier giving birth to their daughter Lu Fang, and Lu had resolved to raise her on his own. It is with a similar determination that Lu now fights for an answer to why the school caved in, crushing his daughter. Lu had just had lunch with her in town an hour before the quake struck. He felt the earth move, and then rocks tumbled down from a nearby peak. As soon as the tremors eased...
Daniel Finkelstein, a British Conservative, recently wrote that his party went through a similar period of internal strife after Tony Blair kicked it out of office in 1997. More painful than all the mutual recriminations, he wrote, was the slow realization that nobody outside a small circle cared about any of these arguments. More than a decade later, Conservatives are still out of power in Britain...
...whisperer” made harassing early-morning calls in which he told students he “was crazy about you.” While police could not take action against the man because his actions were not illegal, local police told him to cease and desist. Similar calls resumed in 2003, though there was no confirmed link to the man in Florida. Onofrey said the oddity of the call was less unusual than just getting a call itself. When the phone rang, “my roommate picked up the camera because this was the momentous event...
...absentee ballots. The number of rejected ballots is not yet known. Still, if Franken gets the state's other counties to give him voter information for their rejected absentee ballots, he might be able to move toward a bank of 16,000 uncounted ballots, if each county rejected a similar percentage as Ramsey. "If [Franken] can get those rejected ballots in the mix I think he's got a much stronger opportunity to win the race," says David Schultz, a Hamline University professor who specializes in elections...